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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-05-05

The city is of an irregular oval form.
about two miles in circumference. and
was walled except ON the side nearest the
sea. 1t had at least eight gates, probably
more, Of which the best preserved and
probably the most ancient is the Nola
The streets are narrow, from twelve t1
fourteen feet wide, including the trottoir.
Some are even less, and tie widest only
about thirty feet. Rows Of high step
ping stones cross the street from side to
SIDE between the trottoirs for lie econveni-
ence of pedestrians in rainy weather.
These stepping stones must have greatly
impeded The passage of vehicles. The
walls, as before mentioned, are low. and
there is little left tut the lower stories.
There is reason to suppose that upper
floors were slightly built, perhaps Of
wood, containing small rooms for the use
of slaves. The walls facing on the streets
are blank, in most instances, tie windows
Of the houses opening on the oaen square
In the center. In some cases small shops
filed the front of houses without conmu-
nIcating with any other part of them.
unless perhaps a room at the back. and
signs still remain showing the particular
business carried on in them Foreign
Letter.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-05-05
MENTAL POWERS OF IDIOTS.
Extraordinary Precocity of Mind in Ger
thin Direct ions.-YI onders,1l EEe,nnry

Extraordinary Precocity of Mind in Ger
tain Observation-Disclosures Memory.
Tt is a strange but well known fact
that in many persons who are idiotic or
but little removed from the mental con-
dition of idiots certain powers Of the
mind may be developed to an extraordin-
ary degree. Remarkable prec0city in the
power OF arithmetical calculations is fre-
Quendy combined with positive de-
ficiency In other directions. In instittl-
tons devoted to the care of feeble minded
children such examples are nearly always
present. Deficient in some faculties,
others are developed to excess. Some
such can carve and draw with great skill.
Extraordinary memory is often met with.
associated with very great defect of
reasoning. One boy, in reading Gibbons
Rise and FAN Of the Roman Empire" z"
skipped line on the third page at his
first perusal. Ever after, when reciting
from memory the stately periods Of Glib
bon, he would, ON coming to the third
page, skip the line ard retrace his steps,
just as when he first recommitted the
passage TO memory.
Often memory takes the form of re-
membering dates and past events. One
boy never failed TO tell correctly the
name and address of every confectionery
shop he visited in London, and could as
readily tell the date Of every visit. The
faculty Of number is usually slightly de-
veloped in feeble minded children, while
memory is fairly well developed; yet oc-
casionally the power of mental arith-
metic has been well developed Jmpro-
visation IS an occasional faculty. Memory
OF tune is a very common faculty among
the feeble minded; they readily acquire
simple airs, and rarely forget them.
In none of the cases of idiot savants
has there been any history of the posses
sion Of similar faculty by the parents or
sisters or brothers. In one case a necropsy
is reported by DR.. j. L. Down, of Lon
don. The boy had a remarkable, indeed,
perfect, appreciation of past or passing
time. There was no difference from an
ordinary brain, with the exception that
there were two web marked and distinct
soft commissures. DR.. Downs explana-
ton Of the phenomenon was that, as
every movement of the house was abso-
lutely punctual, he had data from which
he could estimate the time by accurate
appreciation OF its flux,
Every form of mental deviation may
be met with in the congenital feeble
minded. They may become the subjects
OF acute and chronic mania, or acute and
chronic melancholia and dementia. Oo
casioually, under the influence of acufa
mania tie feeble intellect of youth la-
comes famed into brighter fame Tie
taciturn may become loquacious; the
tinid and respectful, proud and defiant;
the amiable and tractable, abusive and
destructive. Three remarkable instances
occurred to DR.. Down Of boys who had
ngver been able to speak making use of
wel formed sentences during the high
febrile state of acute pneumonia or
scarlatina.
Ii is Of much interest to report all such
cases, as they throw great light On the
workings Of the human mind in health.
-Iedical and Surgical Reports.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-05-05
Mary and Her lamb.

Most of our young readers viii be sur
prised to hear that the Wen known nur-
sery song Of '.'Mary Had Little Lamb
is true story, and that MARY is still
living. About severity years ago she was
a little girl, the daughter Of farmer in
Worcester county, Massachusetts. She
was very fond Of going with her father
to the fields to see the sheep, and one
day they found a baby lamb which YVES
thought to be dead. Kind hearted little
Nary, lowever, lifted it up into her
arms, md as it seemed to breathe she
carried it home, made it n warm bed
near the stove and nursed il tcnderly.
Great was her delight when, after weeks
of careful feeding and watching, her
little patient began to grow wei and
strong, and soon after it was able to run
about. 1t knew its young mistress per-
fectly, always came at her call and was
happy only when at her side. One day
it followed her to the village school, and,
net knowing what else to do with it, she
put it under her desk and covered it with
her shawl. There it staid until Mary
was called up TO the teachers desk TO
say her lesson, and then the lamb walked
quietly after her, and the other children
burst out laughing. So the teacher had
to shut the little girls pet in The wood
she'd until school was cut.
Soon after this young student, named
John Rollstone, wrote a little poem about
Mary and her lamb and presented it to
her The lamb grew to be sheep and
lived for many years, ana when at last
it died, Mary grieved so Inuch for it thct
bcr mother took some of its wool. which
Yves ''as white as snow, and knitted q
pair of stockings for her to wear in re
membrance Of her darling. Some wears
after the lambs death, Mrs. Sarah Hall,
q celebrated woman who wrote books.
composed some verses about Mary y's lamb
and added them TO those written by John
Rollstone, making the complete poem as
we know it. Mary took such good care
Of the stockings made of her lambs
fleece that when she was u grown up
woman she gave one Of them TO q church
fair in Boston, As soon as It became
known that the stocking was. made from
the fleece of ''Mary's little lamb, . every
one wanted a piece of it; 80 the stock
ing was raveled and the fain cut into
short pieces. Each piece was tied to a
card on which MARY wrote her full
name, and those cards sold so well that
they brought the LARGE sum O; $40 in
the Old South church.-Amcrican Agri-
culturist.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-05-05

This custom of using an archaic
tongue unfamiliar to people is very an
cient, and prevails in various religions
outside of Christianity throughout the
world. There seems to be a deep rooted
sentiment in human nature that sacred
cc-emolies should have a language apart,
so t,lat the multitude may not approach
and pr0iane that which is beyond and
above their comprehension.
Within few years a remarkable in
stance OF this custom existing among q
primitive people has been brought to light
in the Investigations of Mr.. Frank Hamil-
ton Cushing among the Zuni Indians Of
New Mexico. Mr. \ Cushing having dis
covered that the prayers and corem0nials
used by the priests are in an ancient
tongue which bears a relation to the Zuni
Of to-day similar to that Of Angl0-Saxon
to ID@lish The remarkable thing about
this j. That the ancient language has been
preserved orally, the Zuni having no
method Of writing, but so great IS the
vcneratiun for the sacred tongue that it
has been handed down from generation to
generation without the change OF a word.
This illustrates the conservative value Of
priesthood. Nearly, il not quite ell,
which the lingual science Of to-day knows
Of the tongues Of antiquity is due to this
practice Of preserving them for use in
sacred offices. Boston Herald
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-05-05

In some parts of Sussex, England,
there is q superstition that if you put on
your right stocking, right shoe and right
trouser leg before the left you viii never
have tOothache. To drink out Of a skull
taken from a graveyard, to take tooth
from such skull and wear it round the
neck, TO apply the tooth to your own
living but aching tooth, to put a double
nut into your pocket, to pare your finger
nails and toe nails, and wrap the par-ngs
in a paper-Qll are charms against the
toothache. In other parts OF England
there is a custom of calling the .oothache
the love pain, > for which the sufferer
is not entitled to any commisseration
Whether he or she fully consents to this
may, perhaps, be doubted.-Iron Times.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-05-05

The diameter of locomotive driving
wheels has been greatly increased to pro-
duce augmented speed. The largest yet
noted are for a mammoth engine on one
Of the french roads. This locomotive has
six coupled wheels eight and a quarter
feet in diameter, and the tender and cars
are to have wheels of the same dimen-
sions, the calculation being that with
such train a speed of about seventy
eight miles an hour can be obtained. The
cars will be swung inside and between
several pairs Of wheels.-Frank Leslie's.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-05-05

The ancient Firms believed that the
world itself was developed from an egg,
which a mystic bird laid in the lap of
Vaimounou, who attempted to hatch it in
his bosom. Accidentally, however, he
let it fall into the water; when it was
broken; the lower portion of the shell be-
came the earth, the upper part the sky,
the liquid white was transformed into tho
sun and the yolk into the moon, while
the small fragments Of scattered shell
We're changed into bright and glittering
stars. New York Journal,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-05-05
Latter Day Saints in OHIO.

An interesting revival of Mormonism
is going on at Kirkland, o., the place
where this curious faith was first pro-
mulgated The old temple is undergoing
repairs, and q new community Of Latter
Day saints is growing up about it. They
do not believe in or practice polygamy,
and SO long as they do not break the
laws Of Ohio nobody objects to them. Ii
the business Of special revelations, how
ever, they are up to their old leaders.
Elder Kelley has one every few days in
regard to the restoration of the temple,
which is to be according to the original
design. But it is a little curious chat for
details he consults the old residents of the
neighborhood who remember Just how
the building looked when it was first
finished. Frank Leslie's.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-05-05
Steamship Nomenclature.

a study Of steamship nomenclature
disclose some rather interesting facts.
The Guion line boats favor the names Of
territories, and hence we have the Alas ks!
and the Arizona. The names OF the
Cunard liners all end in g ia''-for ex-
ample, the Servia and the Euuria. The
Oregon was built, with the Alaska and
Arizona, to be leased to the Guion line,
but she was acquired by the Cunarl line,
and broke the spell so far as both name
and record were concerned, The White
Star beats include the Republic, the Bri-
fannie and the CeItic-au the names ter
minating with "ic." The Anchor line
favors the "ia' terminal, and most Of
the steamship companies follow a hard
and fast rule in selecting names for their
boats, any exception being accounted for
by the purchase Of a particular vessel
from another Hne.-Globe-De Democrat.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-05-05

Mr. Bancroft will not be seen on horseback
this summer. He has sold his tall, gaunt bay
he rode so often in company with Librarian
Spofford. The historian now puts on the
quaint German silk cap in which he did his
riding, and takes brisk walk for his daily
constitutional. Mr.. Spofford continues his
rides alone. A lank, grim visaged man, in a
dusty coat and dingy tile, looking for all
the world like Methodist circuit rider think
ing out sermon, is the picture the librarian
makes as he rides on horseback, staring alb
stractedly ahead and needless whether his
animal walks, trots or lies down.-Washmg-
ton Tettpr
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-05-05

The other day something slipped and
boiling water ran over Mss Maria Par
loa's hands. There was a little cry from
the hundred or more women in the room.
but not q sound not change of a muscle
on the face OF the lecturer A little soda
on tho raw, red flesh, a handkerchief
torn in halves, and the business Of the
hour went on, those hands swelling into
puffy balls Of pain before her hearers
eyes. She did not finch from her blisi-
ncss nor abate one iot o. one title Of her
running fire OF iests till the mornings
balin% was out of the oven and the work
of the session was done.-Broolllyn
Union.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-05-05
RETURN, STRONG WILL"

Return, strong wii thy deserted throne:
Faith, hope and reason, joy will come and te
Loyal prime ministers and aids to thee,
Counselors true, but powerless alone.
Dark doubt and passion their allegiance own
To thy sway only; now, in riot free,
They seek to ruin what is good in me,
And in thy absence what is base condone.
Come thou and quell the revelers; they will
cover,
And all their craven followers in thy sight
VIII serve slaves to thy superior power,
Nor dare to fiaunt by day nor prowI by night
Come and defend fair Innocence, whose flower
Needs the protection of thy guardian might
"A. L. Carlton in Pioneer Press.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-05-05

The journal of the science college of
the Imperial university of Japan. the
first part of which has just made its APP
pearance, may be regarded as a continua-
ton of the scientific memoirs which have
been from time to time published by the
Tokyo university. This Journal is in
tended to be the journal through which
the world at large may receive Japan Is
own contributions to tho progress of
science. Public Opinion.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-05-05

Wagner wrote concerning his friend
Schopenhauer' advice to him to drop
music and write only poetry, that there
was ''little occasion to heed the opinion
of a man who played the flute and who
admired Rossini because he absolutely
disregarded the text of his operas. -
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-05-05

A teachers life in Alabama is thus partly
described by committeeman in a letter to
an eastern friendi s'She tries to make every
thing just as pleasant as she can. She doesn't
mind work. She takes the ak and cuts wood
went to the woods one evening after school
and helped to saw off two cuts after O'Clock.
The people are very well natisfied with her
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-05-05
Theodore Hooks Servant.

Theodore Hook said of his servant that
for the first three years he was as good a
servant as ever came into a house. for the
next two kind and considerate friend,
and afterward an abominably bad mas
ter-ChicarO Tribune.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-05-05

Works Of art are intrinsically valuable.
1t is far easier to find q man who has
100000 to spare than a man who has
500, coo worth Of pictures Of high merit.
The man who gives money to a public
use gives indeed something which may
be turned to excellent account. But the
man who places fine paintings where the
public may see them perhaps gives what
money could not buy.-Brool;lyn Eagle.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-05-05

A Banker to His Employo--Here are
100 francs for a present, or rather $3.50,
for l haze deducted 2 1-2 per cent. for
discount.-New York Graphic,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-05-05

Mr.. RuslIin's net profits from his pc
culiar system of publishing his own books
are stated at $40, 900 for the past wear,
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-12-02
THE RECORD OF CRIME.

Capt A. II. Mills, prominent vesselman
and owner of line OF tugs at Detroit, Mich. ",
Thursday night shot and killed Mrs. Austin
Rising, wife Of his manager, and thcn went
tn his room and committed suicide. He was
infatuated with the lady.
Two dynamite bombs, OF the gas pipe pat
tern, were found at Sc. Joseph, Mo-, Thurs
day. One had been placed at the entrance to
the city hall The implements were ex-
ploded, and showed terrific force The chief
OF police notified his men 10 shout all Anarcli.
lists who resisted arrest.
Miss Edna q. Smith, aged IS, OF Brazil,
Ind, answered an advertisement for nurse
in Cincinnati paper. and going there fell
into the hands Of a man named Whitney
Dollman, said to be professional criminal.
He proposed marriages, was accepted, and the
ceremony was performed Saturday. Next
day ths husband disappeared, taking 800
bsiSneing 20 the BRIDE leaving her friendlss
and psnnilcs.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-12-02
Probate Order.
STATE OF MICHIGAN, l.
rotfNTy Op - uIAxyAssIsE.

S So OF MiUHiGAN' SIS.
At a session of the Probate Court for the County
of Shiawassee holden at the Probate Office, In the
City Of Corunna, on Tuesday, the 22d day of No
vep'ber In the year one thousand eight hundred
and eighty-seven.
Present, A. A. Harper, Judge of Probate.
In the Matter OF the Estate of Alfred l.. W Hams
deceased.
On reading and filing the petition, duly verified,
of A. Lee Williams ADM Illustrator Of the estate of
said deceased, praying that he may be licensed 10
sell the real estate as In said petition described.
for the purpose of paying debts of said deceased
Thereupon IL Is Ordered. that Monday, the 18th
day of December next, at ten o'clock in the fore
noon be assigned for the hearing %. said petition,
and that the heirs at lav Of said deceased,
and all other persons interested Ia said estate.
required 10 appear ~ session OF said Court, then
to be holden at the Probate Office In the City al
Corunna IN said county, and show cause, II amy
there be, why the prayer OF the petitioner should
not he granted
And IL Is Further Ordered. that said peiitiotc r
give notice to the persons interested ia said estate,
Of the tendency OF said petition, and the hearing
thereof. by causing copy Of this order TO be pub.
lished In TIE TIMES. n newspaper printed and
circulated In said county Of Shiawassee for three
successive weeks previous 10 said day Of hearing.
"a true copy. A. A. HARPER.
Judge Of Probate.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-12-02
Ordinance.

To provide for the grading of Oak street
from Exchange street south to the Shia
wassee river in the city of Owosso.
SEC. 1. The Common Council OF the
city of Owosso do determine and ordain.
that il is necessary public improvement
that that portion of Oak street from EX-
be graded and that the estimated expense
thereof he The sum of one hundred dollars
and that said sum Of one hundred dollars
be assessed upon all lots and lands fronting
on said portion of said Oak street hereinbe
fore described in manner hereafter pro.
vided.
Sec. 9. Said grading shall be done
under the direction and supervision of the
committee of said Common Council on
grading and sidewalks.
SEC. 4. G. Balduin, Geo B. Hughes
and w. Smith being resident free holders
of said city not interested in any Of said
property benefited by said improvement
nor of kin to anv person inter, sted are
hereby designated as Commissioner and
directed to make an assessment upon all
lots and lands fronting on that portion of
said Oak street hereinbefore described Of
said sum of one hundred dollars in proper
tion as neatly as may be to the advantage
which each shall by said Commissioners Ec
deemed to acquire by the making of said
improvement.
Approved Nov. 81, 1887.
JAMES II. CALKINS,
Attest: Ma,or.
EDMUND O. DEWEY.
Civ Clerk
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-12-02
NEUTRALITY IS A CRIME.
So Say the Minnesota Prohibitionists at
the State Convention.

So Say the Minnesota Prohibitionists at
the State Convention.
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Nov. s3.-The state
convention of Prohibitionists opened Tuesday
morning and the following officers were
elected: Chairman, Noah Lathrop; secre-
tary, c. N. Woodward. Mrs. G. N. Hobart
was elected first vice-president
A resolution was offered and strongly sup
ported which authorized the central COM
mittee to translate the best Prohibition liter
allure into foreign languages, particularly
into the Scandinavian languages
At the afternoon session, the committee on
resolutions submitted its report. The report
says, that the evils OF the liquor traffic have
reached a magnitude that threatens the
foundations of the government Neutrality is
a political crime, the saloon "the enemy of
society, the special foe of the workingman,
and the central cause OF the unthrift and the
resulting unrest among wage-workers
I" IS The corrupt use of money to con-
troll legislatures is the gravest problem in the
history of the country. This use of money
for bribery is not even denied by the liquor
interests" The resolutions conclude: ave
maintain that the entire prohibition of the
saloon is principle sound in law and ethics,
and the Prohibition party pledges its coop
GRAFTON and influence in the prosecution OF
all measures needful for the protection OF
home from the drink curse"
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-12-02
WOMEN TEMPERANCE WORKERS.
Proceedings of the Nashville Meeting
Award of Hammers.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Nov. ~ The Woman's
Christian Temperance Union was opened
promptly at o'clock Thursday morning in the
Watkins hall The following bylaws were
added to the constitution mo state
union shall be bound by any principle
espoused, or plan devised by the National
Woman's Christian Union, except that all
states auxiiares must subscribe TO the total
abstinence pledge and 30 the constitution of
the national" The treasurer, Miss Esther
Pugh, mentions in her report that Mrs. Leav-
tit, the rouud-the- world missionary, has re-
turned $500 sent her TO defray her expenses,
she having worked her own way.
n call Tor Il conference Of leading workers
In the cause mt Washington in February,
ISIS, for the PURPOSE OF influencing legisa-
ton, was agreed TO- Tho question of pay
ment of dues to the National w. c. T. u
causel a lively discuss on Ths Iowa ana
Pennsy lvana organizations refused TO ac-
cent the decision OF the convention that each
member of tho organizations must pay &c
cents per year instead OF = cents, and thsre
was some doubt us to whether the delegates
from those states would DO admitted. They
were finally permitted to take their seats, but
were barred from contesting for the BAN
ners
<AIJeI an clitOOItIe iIoil MIS- Stil-
oline b. Buell., the corresponding secretary,
the banners were presented. These were of
fered by Mrs. Matilda b. Carse, OF Illinois,
to the states of the respective sections of the
United States showing the largest percentage
of increase for the past year. lmpromptu
addresses We're the order Of tho evening. The
following states received banners: Massa-
chusetts, increase 80 per cent; Delaware, So;
Maryland, l25; New Mexico, l25; Minnesota,
62; Wisconsin, 81, AMI Tennessee, 80, New
York, for largest increase of membership,
holds banner offered by Anna Gordon
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Nov. l0.-At the election
of officers for the w. Z. 7. U. Friday Miss
Frances E. Willard was reelected president
the announcement of which created greater.
thusiasm, the delegates rising and singing.
"Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow"
with great JUNCTION. Miss Willard was es-
corted to the chair by Mrs. Wallace, and i'll
troduced as sour John the Baptist"